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...Army helicopter pilot Bobby Hall said that his crossing into the Communist country's airspace was "accidental" and that Pyongyang authorities forced a signed "confession" from him. Hall said that his helicopter was shot down, and crashed into a mountainside; fellow pilot and Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon "was thrown from the aircraft and died on the spot." As for his written statement, given in captivity, which indicated the flight path was no accident, Hall said: "It was all what they dictated me to write. The whole time I was there I felt uncomfortable and nervous about everything they wanted...
...important game for us to hang on to," Smith said. "We have the ability to handle whatever's thrown at us." Northeastern 58 Harvard...
...Some Harvard students] have spit on me, some have thrown their snot rags on me," Juan says. "There were some female Harvard students who told their boyfriends not to give me a dime when they were going to give me a dollar. [The girls] said 'Let him eat cake,' you know, the famous words of Marie Antoinette...
...campus of 1994. "The Houses," said the 1928 Report of the President, were "a social device for a moral purpose." And that "moral purpose" was likewise clear: "young men" of "various fields of thought," different "concentration[s], pecuniary means, and residence in different parts of the country" should be "thrown together" in an effort to increase one's understanding of the other...
...large population of the poor, cut off from government help and thrown onto the meager capabilities of private charity -- it's not a pretty picture. "I see a lot of anger and bitterness," warns Doris Bloch, executive director of the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, where donations are down 41% this year. "If people can't get jobs and enough to eat, they feel they have a very little stake in our society. If we think we have trouble now, hold...